Holmgren said the Seahawks talked to about 30 different receivers they would be interested in bringing in, including ex-Seahawk Koren Robinson, but ultimately decided on Billy McMullen and Samie Parker.

Matt Burrows of the Sacramento Bee notes that Alex Smith's shoulder injury problems began in a game against the Seahawks. Seattle's Julian Peterson, an ex-49er, talks about Smith not looking right in the team's second game against San Francisco last season.

About the Seahawks Insider Blog

Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.